Performer: Billy West Writer: Brown ; Hanley; King
with orchestra.
Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical.
The preferred versions suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. have been copied to have the more friendly filenames.
Reviewer:arc-claire
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August 4, 2017 Subject:
I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues
A response to the wild success of the popular novelty song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas," originally sung by Eddie Cantor and then recorded by Billy Jones, this follow-up finds yet another singer (Billy West) joining the craze. Many different artists covered the original song, which led Eddie Cantor to record "I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues," which was in turn covered by artists like Billy Jones and Billy West.
Based on Frank Silver's real experience with a Greek fruit stand owner who started every sentence with "Yes," "Yes! We Have No Bananas" is a popular novelty song written by Silver and Irving Cohn for Eddie Cantor's performance in the 1922 Broadway revue "Make It Snappy." Billy Jones was the first to place on the charts with his recording—his version was number one for five weeks in 1923.
